2024 NFL Uniform Game Matchups - Year in Review

First and foremost, thank you to all members that participated in the surveys this year. We had 3,171 responses this year with each weekly survey averaging over 176 responses (up 4 from last year). 

Before the start of the year,12 teams introduced either alternate helmets, pants, and uniforms with the Denver Broncos, Detroit Lions, Houston Texans, and New York Jets introducing new uniforms. 

Baltimore Ravens - New alternate helmet

Cincinnati Bengals - New orange pants

Cleveland Browns - New helmet colors and facemask

Denver Broncos - New uniforms

Detroit Lions - New uniforms

Green Bay Packers - New alternate helmet

Houston Texans - New uniforms

Jacksonville Jaguars - New throwback uniform & white helmet

Minnesota Vikings  - New alternate uniform

New York Giants - New throwback uniform

New York Jets - New uniforms 

Washington Commanders - New gold pants

The biggest movers in a positive direction in 2024 from the 2023 results were as follows: 

1. Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved up 14 spots from #22 to #08. 

2. Denver Broncos moved up 13 spots from #25 to #12. 

3. Indianapolis Colts moved up 10 spots from #21 to #11. 

The biggest movers in a negative direction in 2024 from the 2023 results were as follows: 

1. Detroit Lions moved down 14 spots from #17 to #31. 

2. Seattle Seahawks moved down 11 spots from #19 to #30. 

3a. Houston Texans moved down 8 spots from #24 to #32

3b. Minnesota Vikings moved down 8 spots from #11 to #19. 

3c. Green Bay Packers moved down 8 spots from #1 to #9

The highest rated games of the year were as follows: 

1. Week 12 Steelers at Browns 9.12

2. Week 13 49ers at Bills 8.91

3. Week 5 Raiders at Broncos 8.82

The lowest rated games of the year were as follows: 

1. Week 15 Packers at Seahawks 2.55

2. Week 17 Ravens at Texans 3.38

3. Week 09 Texans at Jets 3.78

Teams with the most 1st place finishes in 2024:

Kansas City Chiefs (5) 

Week 4 vs Chargers 8.14

Week 7 vs 49ers 7.93

Week 8 vs Raiders 8.71

Week 11 vs Bills 8.61

Week 18 vs Broncos 8.80

Las Vegas Raiders (5)

Week 1 vs Chargers 7.88

Week 5 vs Broncos 8.82

Week 6 vs Steelers 8.63

Week 8 vs Chiefs 8.71

Week 9 vs Bengals 7.58

Teams with the most 2nd place finishes in 2024: 

49ers (7) 

Packers (6)

Vikings (3) 

Teams with the most 3rd place finishes in 2024:

Steelers (4)

Buccaneers (4)

Colts (4)

Team with the most last places finishes in 2024: 

Houston Texans (6)

Week 2 vs Bears 4.27

Week 5 vs Bills 4.38

Week 7 vs Packers 4.56

Week 9 vs Jets 3.78

Week 10 vs Lions 4.15

Week 17 vs Ravens 3.38

Teams that failed to finish in the Top 3 at least once in 2024: 

1. 5 Last Place Finishes: Lions

2. 3 Last Place Finishes: Titans

3. 2 Last Place Finishes: Cardinals, Jaguars, Panthers, 

5 Highest rated matchups since 2018:

1. 2020 Week 11 Raiders vs Chiefs 9.45

2. 2019 Week 11 Chiefs vs Chargers 9.24

3. 2021 Week 9 Chiefs vs Packers 9.23

4. 2022 Week 7 Steelers vs Dolphins 9.22

5. 2024 Week 12 Steelers at Browns 9.12  

5 Lowest rated matchups since 2018: 

1. 2020 Week 7 Lions vs Falcons 2.04

2. 2024 Week 15 Packers vs Seahawks 2.55

3. 2022 Week 8 Jaguars vs Broncos 2.87

4. 2018 Week 5 Ravens vs Buccaneers 2.88

5. 2023 Week 1 Cardinals vs Commanders 2.92

2018-2024 Standings:

1. Chiefs 7.35
2. Packers 7.33
3. Steelers 7.01
4. Chargers 6.98
5. 49ers 6.92
6. Bears 6.85
7. Cowboys 6.70
8. Dolphins 6.69
9. Vikings 6.56
10. Patriots 6.45
11. Colts 6.40
12. Bills 6.38
13. Browns 6.24
14. Jets 6.20
15. Lions 6.14
16. Eagles 6.12
17. Giants 5.99
18. Rams 5.99
19. Raiders 5.99
20. Bengals 5.89
21. Ravens 5.89
22. Commanders 5.86
23. Broncos 5.75
24. Saints 5.71
25. Buccaneers 5.66
26. Panthers 5.59
27. Texans 5.50
28. Seahawks 5.46
29. Jaguars 5.28
30. Falcons 5.18
31. Cardinals 5.13
32. Titans 5.12

Winner by Year from 2018-2024: 

2018 Packers 7.38

2019 Packers 7.74

2020 Raiders 7.61

2021 Raiders 7.73

2022 Steelers 7.52

2023 Packers 7.33

2024 49ers 7.38

Loser by Year from 2018-2024:

2018 Buccaneers 4.31

2019 Buccaneers 3.62

2020 Rams 4.45

2021 Jets 4.74

2022 Cardinals 4.93

2023 Commanders 4.66

2024 Texans 5.11

Sports Aesthetics 2024 New College Football Uniform Changes

American Athletic Conference

North Texas Mean Green: The Mean Green introduced new uniforms that include sleeve stripes and plain pants. Their previous uniforms were stripe less and plain. They also changed the color of the green to a brighter Kelly green look.

Rice Owls: The Owls have introduced new Adidas uniforms with sleeve stripes, a bolder front workmark, with TV numbers. Their main colors are silver, white, and navy like in previous sets.

Atlantic Coast Conference

California Golden Bears: The team removed the sather striping and went with a more traditional stripes pattern on the sleeves and pants.

Miami Hurricanes: The Hurricanes made two slight changes to their 2024 uniform set and introduced a new black uniform. The slight changes made was the team removed their existing shield from their chest and added their logo to the neck collar. In addition, they have moved away from their Dade font to a Block font.

Virginia Tech Hokies: The Hokies removed the horrendous shoulder striping pattern from the previous set and went with a Michael Vick inspired throwback. The new template has the Hokie Bricks in the numbers and both the maroon and white jersey features TV numbers in orange.

Big Ten Conference

Illinois Fighting Illini: The team introduced 3 throwback helmets to honor the 100^th Anniversary of Memorial Stadium.

Indiana Hoosiers: The Hoosiers went back to a more simplistic uniform for the 2024 season. They removed the pants stripes; they changed the red helmet stripes to two white stripes and removed all black from the uniform.

Iowa Hawkeyes: A slight change to their helmet for this season as they removed the white bumpers and chinstrap and replaced them with black.

Minnesota Golden Gophers: Updated the full uniform set by adding stripes to the jerseys and pants this season. Removed the horrible existing thick collar.

Oregon Ducks: The Ducks have unveiled a new “fly era” black uniform as well as a throwback “O” helmet made popular by Joey Harrington.

Purdue Boilermakers: The team has added traditional striping back to all parts of the uniform, including both the gold and black helmets.  The outlines on the numbers are tighter than last year.

Big 12 Conference

Arizona Wildcats: Introduced a new helmet design with cats in script on a white shell. In addition, the team is supposed to fix their jersey stripes this year and go back to the 2022 template.

Baylor Bears: The Bears are one of many teams that have moved away from Nike’s boring plain template and added stripes throughout the Green, Yellow, and White uniforms. The new black uniform has a completely different template than the rest.

BYU Cougars: The Cougars introduced a new throwback uniform to be worn once this season that represents the 1996 team.

Iowa State Cyclones: The Cyclones are another team that decided to add stripes to their jerseys this season and it is an upgrade. It would have been nice if they added stripes to the pants as well. In addition, to the jersey changes, the team have also introduced a new black and white uniform.

TCU Horned Frogs: The Horned Frogs moved away from their unique collar design and introduced another boring uniform for the 2024 set.

Texas Tech Red Raiders: The Red Raiders moved away from Under Armor and transitioned over to Adidas for the 2024 season. With this move, they changed uniforms to a more traditional set with stripes used throughout the uniform.

West Virginia Mountaineers: The team has moved away from their plain uniform worn in previous seasons by adding a new striping pattern on the pants along with a new stripe on the shoulders of the jerseys. The team also introduced a new black uniform inspired by the coal miners of West Virginia.

 

C-USA Conference

Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders: The Blue Raiders have removed the TV numbers on the sleeves and replaced them with a new striping pattern.

Southeastern Conference

Ole Miss Rebels: Introduced a new white-out uniform.

Tennessee Volunteers: Introduced a new Smokey Gray Alternate.

Mid-American Conference

Bowling Green Falcons: The Falcons changed up their uniform this season by removing the diagonal sleeve stripes and going with a more traditional sleeve striping pattern. They also added stripes to their pants.

Miami Redhawks: The Redhawks introduced a new white uniform for the 2024 season with sleeve stripes, Miami script on the chest, and a drop-shadow number font, compared to the black-outlined red number font from last season.

Mountain West Conference

Boise State Broncos: The Bronco made a few slight changes to their 2024 uniform including a larger Boise State wordmark on the front of the jersey, larger Broncos script on the pants, added a new striping pattern to the black, blue, and white jerseys, and added TV numbers to the shoulders. For some reason, the team decided to keep the orange jersey striping pattern the same as last year.

UNLV Rebels: Updated their red jersey by adding stripes to the jerseys and removing TV numbers on the arms. White jersey number colors changed from silver outlined in black to gray outlined in red. Added gray jerseys with stripes and white numbers outlined in red to the rotation.

Wyoming Cowboys: The team introduced a new yellow jersey for the upcoming season.

PAC 12 Conference

Oregon State Beavers: The Beavers new uniforms are not drastically different than their previous set. The main differences are the striping pattern on the shoulders are the same for everyone jersey. They now have 4 jersey colors, Black, Orange, White, and Anthracite.

Sun Belt Conference

Appalachian State Mountaineers: The Mountaineers have added two yellow sleeve stripes to their black and white jerseys for the 2024 season.

 

 

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2023 NFL Uniform Game Matchups - Year in Review

First and foremost, thank you to all members that participated in the surveys this year. We had 3081 responses this year with each weekly survey averaging over 172 responses. 

Before the start of the year, 11 teams introduced alternate helmets and throwback uniforms, with the Arizona Cardinals introducing completely new uniforms. 

Arizona Cardinals - Red uniform, White uniform, Black uniform

Cleveland Browns - New alternate uniform 

Denver Broncos - New alternate helmet

Detroit Lions - New alternate helmet

Indianapolis Colts - New alternate uniform

Minnesota Vikings - New alternate uniform

New York Jets - New alternate uniform

Philadelphia Eagles - New alternate uniform

Seattle Seahawks - New alternate uniform

Tampa Bay Buccaneers - New alternate uniform

Tennessee Titans - New alternate uniform

The biggest movers in a positive direction in 2023 from the 2022 results were as follows: 

1a. Miami Dolphins moved up 8 spots from #17 to #9. 

1b. New York Jets moved up 8 spots from #31 to #23. 

2. Philadephia Eagles moved up 7 spots from #20 to #13.

The biggest movers in a negative direction in 2023 from the 2022 results were as follows: 

1. Indianapolis Colts moved down 13 spots from #8 to #21.

2. Tampa Bay Buccaneers moved down 11 spots from #11 to #22. 

3. Carolina Panthers moved down 9 spots from #22 to #31. 

The highest rated games of the year were as follows: 

1. Week 1 Packers at Bears 8.76

2. Week 12 Chiefs at Raiders 8.67

3. Week 7 Chargers at Chiefs 8.61

The lowest rated games of the year were as follows: 

1. Week 1 Cardinals at Commanders 2.93

2. Week 15 Falcons at Panthers 3.48

3. Week 5 Bears at Commanders 3.53

Team with the most 1st place finishes in 2023:

Green Bay Packers: (5) 

Week 1 vs Bears 8.76

Week 2 vs Falcons 8.33

Week 10 vs Steelers 7.88

Week 14 vs Giants 8.20

Week 18 vs Bears 8.60

Teams with the most 2nd place finishes in 2023: 

Chiefs (6) 

Bills (4) 

Cowboys (3) 

Teams with the most 3rd place finishes in 2023:

Vikings (5)

Bills (4) 

Chargers (4) 

Team with the most last places finishes in 2023: 

Washington Commanders (5) 

Week 1 vs Cardinals 2.93

Week 5 vs Bears 3.53

Week 9 vs Patriots 4.44

Week 11 vs Giants 3.79

Week 16 vs Jets 4.09

Teams that failed to finish in the Top 3 at least once in 2023: 

1. 5 Last Place Finishes: Commanders

2. 3 Last Place Finishes: Cardinals, Jaguars, Falcons, Bears

3. 2 Last Place Finishes: Panthers, Saints, Titans, Jets, Lions, Rams

Highest rated matchups since 2018:

1. 2020 Week 11 Raiders vs Chiefs 9.45

2. 2019 Week 11 Chiefs vs Chargers 9.24

3. 2021 Week 9 Chiefs vs Packers 9.23

4. 2022 Week 7 Steelers vs Dolphins 9.22

5. 2018 Week 18 Chiefs vs Raiders 9.06

6. 2023 Week 1 Packers vs Bears 8.76

Lowest rated matchups since 2018: 

1. 2020 Week 7 Lions vs Falcons 2.04

2. 2022 Week 8 Jaguars vs Broncos 2.87

3. 2018 Week 5 Ravens vs Buccaneers 2.88

4. 2023 Week 1 Cardinals vs Commanders 2.92

5. 2019 Week 9 Broncos vs Browns 2.93

6. 2021 Week 13 Eagles vs Jets 3.03

2018-2023 Standings:

1. Packers 7.47

2. Chiefs 7.39

3. Bears 7.00

4. Steelers 6.98

5. Chargers 6.96

6. 49ers 6.83

7. Dolphins 6.77

8. Cowboys 6.70

9. Vikings 6.61

10. Patriots 6.52

11. Colts 6.38

12. Bills 6.34

13. Lions 6.34

14. Jets 6.24

15. Browns 6.16

16. Eagles 6.11

17. Giants 6.03

18. Raiders 5.99

19. Redskins/Football Team/Commanders 5.92

20. Bengals 5.87

21. Ravens 5.86

22. Rams 5.84

23. Broncos 5.68

24. Saints 5.67

25. Texans 5.58

26. Panthers 5.55

27. Buccaneers 5.49

28. Seahawks 5.48

29. Jaguars 5.24

30. Falcons 5.11

31. Titans 5.10

32. Cardinals 5.08

Winner by Year from 2018-2023: 

2018 Packers 7.38

2019 Packers 7.74

2020 Raiders 7.61

2021 Raiders 7.73

2022 Steelers 7.52

2023 Packers 7.33

Loser by Year from 2018-2023:

2018 Buccaneers 4.31

2019 Buccaneers 3.62

2020 Rams 4.45

2021 Jets 4.74

2022 Cardinals 4.93

2023 Commanders 4.66